Placement Record

Our department offers a full range of placement services and support to our students. The departmental Placement Director organizes a placement workshop that meets during the spring and fall quarters for students finishing, or near finishing, their degrees. The Placement Director also advises students on preparing their CVs and assembling their dossiers and arranges practice interviews for students attending the divisional meetings of the APA.

Listed below is placement information for recent graduates of our program. Students are listed by the year in which they received their current positions. Dissertation topics, faculty advisors and previous positions, where applicable, follow.

Dissertation title: Saving the Agent: An Investigation of Agency, Explanation, and Two-Standpoint Arguments

Dissertation Chair: Gary Watson

2003

Glen Pettigrove

University of Glasgow, Chair of Moral Philosophy (2017- )

Dissertation title: Seeking Forgiveness: Studies in Moral and Political Philosophy

Dissertation Chair: Georgia Warnke

Previous positions: The University of Auckland (Auckland, New Zealand): Lecturer in Philosophy (2008-2017; Massey University (Palmerston North, New Zealand) New Zealand): Lecturer in Philosophy (2005-2008); Santa Clara University (2003–2005)

STUDENT PROFILE

Areas of Interest Andrew is interested in contemporary metaphysics, logic, epistemology, and philosophy of religion. He is especially interested in the nature of explanation and its relationship to the world.

FACULTY PROFILE

Specializing in 19th century German philosophy, Professor Clark’s main focus has been on the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. She is currently finishing a co-authored book entitled Nietzsche’s Magnificent Tension of the Spirit, on Nietzsche’s philosophical psychology and why he writes the way he does.

NEWS

Professor Larry Wright joined UCR in 1970. He was the longest reigning faculty in the UCR philosophy department in his tenure. As Larry joins our other prominent philosophy faculty of Emeritus status, he will continue to service the University as a Professor of Graduate Division from July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2018. On behalf […]

Professor Mark Wrathall has been awarded a faculty fellowship from The Templeton Foundation for his research titled “The Philosophy and Theology of Immortality.” He will be on fellowship for the 2014-15 academic year at Christ Church, Oxford University in the United Kingdom. Congratulations to Professor Mark Wrathall!